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Helen Davidson

Helen Davidson is a Guardian correspondent based in Taipei

Email: helen.davidson@theguardian.com

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February 2025

  • This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour, Dec. 27, 2024. (ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA via AP)

    China opens recruitment for ‘planetary defence force’ amid fears of asteroid hitting Earth

  • Vehicles transport wind-powered electric fan blades and rest at the service area of the Rugui-Hechi Expressway in Liuzhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, on 17 2024.

    China’s coal power habit undercuts ‘unprecedented pace’ of clean energy

  • CHINA-DEMOGRAPHICS-MARRIAGE-POPULATION<br>A couple poses for wedding photos outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on February 11, 2025. China last year saw a one-fifth decline in marriages, the latest sign of persistent demographic challenges as Beijing works to encourage births despite an uncertain economic outlook for young families. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

    She said no: marriages in China plummet to record low

  • Donald Trump hold a proclamation regarding steel imports as he speaks in the Oval Office.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Donald Trump says there are no exemptions on 25% aluminum and steel tariffs – as it happened

  • Trump to announce 25% aluminium and steel tariffs as China’s levies against US come into effect

  • US cedes ground to China with ‘self-inflicted wound’ of USAid shutdown, analysts say

  • US Postal Service briefly halts packages arriving from China and Hong Kong

  • US politics live with Chris Stein
    Democrats and protesters rally outside treasury department to protest Elon Musk’s access to sensitive information – as it happened

  • China unveils US tariffs and Google investigation in response to Trump levies

  • Big tech to tungsten: what industries are the focus of China’s new US tariffs?

  • Rubio welcomes Panama’s move to exit Chinese infrastructure plan as ‘great step forward’

January 2025

  • Students in Taiwan participate in an ocean safety class with teacher Tseng Ching-ming, who is trying to turn around the low rates of swimming and a deeply entrenched fear of the ocean.

    Taiwan’s next generation takes on its fear of the deep

  • Exterior of immigration detention centre

    Relatives plead with Thailand not to deport 48 Uyghur men to China

  • A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara locks of the Panama Canal in September 2024.

    Trump says China is ‘operating’ the Panama canal – here are the facts

  • Tourists at the Temple of Heaven complex in Beijing this month

    China’s economic need and soft diplomacy spur about-face on visa-free entry

  • Hong Kong chief justice claims overseas judges have left due to ‘orchestrated harassment’

  • Australia exposed to modern slave labour imports and many businesses ‘ignoring the facts’, commissioner warns

  • Thousands of imports enter Australia from firms blacklisted by US over alleged Uyghur forced labour links

  • Censorship, homework help and cats: China’s RedNote users welcome ‘TikTok refugees’

  • Mike Pence to Trump: cutting Taiwan support would ‘likely spark a new nuclear arms race’

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